专题05 中国元素 四大名著 -2023-2024学年高中英语阅读写作素材之中国传统文化

高中英语阅读写作素材之中国传统文化 中国元素 四大名著（素材+时文阅读+语法填空+书面表达） 第1部分 话题素材积累 The Four Great Classical Novels of China are usually thought to be the best novels in Chinese literature. What all four have in common is that they were wrilten in a spoken language of their times unlike most ancient literature that was written in the classical literary language. 中国四大名著通常被认为是中国文学上最优秀的小说。这四部作品的共同之处在于，它们都是用当时的口语化语言写成的，而大多数古代文学作品是用古典文学语言写成的。 The Four Great Classical Novels are the four novels commonly regarded by Chinese literary critics to be the greatest and most influential of pre-modern Chinese fiction. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368 AD-1912 AD),they have been well-known to most Chinese either directly or through their many adaptations to opera and various popular culture media. They are among the world's longest and oldest novels and are considered to be the pinnacle of China's achievement in classical novels. 四大名著是中国文学评论界公认的中国前现代小说中最伟大、最具影响力的四部小说。从明清时期（公元1368年－公元1912年）开始，四大名著就直接以书本或通过改编戏剧以及各类流行文化媒介而被人们所熟知。它们是世界上最长、最古老的小说之一，代表了中国古典小说的最高成就。 The Four Great Classical Novels had a significant influence on the development of Chinese societies in past eras. They were widely read by people and contained philosophical ideas, history and ideas about human society,family life and politics that defined part of the world view of the scholars and of the politicians. 四大名著对中国历代社会发展产生了重大的影响。人们广泛阅读四大名著，它们包含了哲学思想、历史，以及关于人类社会、家庭生活和政治的理念，这些理念对学者和政治家世界观也产生了部分影响。 Luo Guanzhong, author of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, based his novel on both folk tales and the historical records of the conflicts among the kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. The three kingdoms were established by Cao Pi, Liu Bei and Sun Quan respectively. 罗贯中的《三国演义》取材于民间故事和历史记载的魏、蜀、吴三国之间的冲突。三国分别由曹丕、刘备和孙权建立。 Journey to the West was written in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty(1368 AD-1644 AD)by Wu Cheng'en.The novel tells a series of the legends of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang who travelled to India and Central Asia during the Tang